Future insights are incredibly powerful for businesses and their owners. At Gravitate, our Forecasting & Financial Modelling service equips your business with robust, data-driven models that guide strategic decisions, from investment appraisal to securing funding.
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A robust financial forecast and model are more than just some numbers on a screen, they are the foundation on which you can think strategically, build for the future, and make critical business decisions. Here are some key situations where they will deliver for you:
Accurate models mean less uncertainty, happier stakeholders, and faster movement!
Gravitate Corporate Finance prioritises technical rigour, deep sector understanding and crystal-clear communication as part of a fine-tuned process.
Contact UsWe start by understanding what really moves your numbers. This means your revenue streams, cost base, seasonality, margins, working capital, capex needs, and more.
Organising and sanitising past financials, identifying anomalies and one-offs, normalising for owner/non-operational items.
We will factor in various different scenarios (best case, base case, worst case), stress tests, and sensitivity to key variables (price, volume, costs, external factors), so you have as clear-as-possible picture of what the future may hold.
It is essential that profit figures don’t mislead, so we will model how profits translate into cash, how your cash is used, and how debt, investment and working capital affect your business liquidity.
We will deploy our arsenal of tools and software to speed up modelling, reduce manual error, maintain clarity and allow for easy updates.
When the work is all done, we deliver your findings with clarity and authority, including models with narratives, dashboards or visual summaries, assumption breakdowns, risk analysis, and help you interpret them.
Forecasting is projecting future numbers (revenues, costs, cash flows) based on assumptions and trends. Financial modelling is building a structured tool (often a spreadsheet or software model) that brings together those forecasts with scenarios, sensitivities, and what-if analyses to help you test strategy, understand risks, and make decisions.
Accuracy depends on quality of historical data, realism of assumptions, understanding of underlying drivers, and whether external factors are well-considered. We always build in sensitivity and scenario testing to show probable ranges, not just single outcomes.
It varies with complexity. A simple forecast / budget model may take a few days. More detailed, scenario-rich models (with multiple variables, financing layers, stress tests) may take several weeks. We'll outline timeline clearly before starting.
Ideally, we need recent financial statements (profit & loss, balance sheet, cashflow), budget data, operational metrics (sales volume, margin metrics, fixed vs variable costs), capital expenditure plans, existing debt or financing arrangements, market assumptions. The more complete, the more reliable the model.
Yes. We build models designed to stand up to external scrutiny, clarity of assumptions, defensibility of scenario tests, transparency in cashflow vs profit, and traceability. Perfect for funding applications, bank credit assessments or investor due diligence.
A model is only useful if it stays relevant. Typical cadence is quarterly reviews, at least twice per year for more strategic or long-term forecasts. Updates should follow whenever there are material changes: strategy shifts, investment commitments, market disruptions, growth accelerations, or cost inflation.
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